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Breast lump
A localized swelling, knot, bump, bulge or protuberance in the breast. Breast lumps may appear in both sexes at all ages. In women, the fear is usually of breast cancer but many breast lumps turn out, fortunately, to be due to benign…
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- Bromoderma A skin eruption brought on by chronic exposure to bromine. Essentially an allergic reaction to bromine. There…
- Nucleotide >A nitrogenous base (A, G, T, or C in DNA; A, G, U, or C in RNA), >A phosphate molecule, and >A sugar…
- Syndrome, hypoplastic left heart A form of congenital heart disease in which the whole left half of the heart (including the aorta , aortic…
- Yolk stalk A narrow tube present in the early embryo that connects the midgut of the embryo to the yolk sac outside the…
- Atrial flutter Well-organized but overly rapid contractions of the atrium of the heart (usually at a rate of 250-350…
- Board certified Board certified in medicine means a physician has taken and passed a medical specialty examination. Board…
- Pharmacogenomics The study of how variations in the human genome affect the response to medications. The older term…
- Word blindness A neurological disorder characterized by loss of the ability to read or understand the written word. Word…
- Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy. (From the New Latin, philosophiae doctor). Ph.D.'s are involved in clinical care (as in…
- Lipophilin See: Proteolipid protein
- Allergy Allergy: A misguided reaction to foreign substances by the immune system, the body system of defense against…